Tanya
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed in the twentieth century from the Russian pet form Та́ня (Tánja) of Татья́на (Tatʹjána, “Tatiana”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɑːnjə/, /ˈtænjə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɑnjə/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːnjə, (UK) -ænjə, (US) -ɑnjə
Proper noun[edit]
Tanya
- A diminutive of the female given name Tatiana, from Russian.
- 1989, Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 298:
- “Did Tanya... why, by the way, was she named Tanya? It's not a Southern name, is it?” “No,” said Fanny, “it's as Russian as Vladimir. But only a few people ever pronounced it correctly. I always did. Most people said ‘Tan-ya’, like the color tan. She and her mother hated it when that happened, and complained. I suggested they replace the a in Tan with an o, but they preferred to make a lifelong habit of correcting people.”
Usage notes[edit]
Usually spelled Tania in the UK and Tanya in the US.
Translations[edit]
female given name — see Tania
Etymology 2[edit]
From Hebrew תַּנְיָא (tanyā), the first word in the book, from Aramaic תַּנְיָא (tanyā, “it was taught [in a Baraita]”).
Proper noun[edit]
Tanya
- the main work of Chabad Hassidic philosophy, formally called Likkutei Amarim, written by Shneur Zalman of Liadi, first published in 1797
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English Tanya, from Russian pet form Та́ня (Tánja) of Татья́на (Tatʹjána, “Tatiana”).
Proper noun[edit]
Tanya
- a female given name from English [in turn from Russian]
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